Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 237 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,150,406 to it, the largest being THE SPRING FOUNDATION INC ($12,406,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year. GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$710M
Recipients
3,267
Contributions on record
$79M
Donors on record
268
Payments out run 9.0x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared funders
- The Keehn Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- The J Willard and Alice S Marriott Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $4.0M → $8.5M.
37 of 237 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9.9M from 29 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Baltimore Community Foundation Inc); $30k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Greater Washington Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 237 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 237 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- The Keehn Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The J Willard and Alice S Marriott Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baumbusch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James R and Linda Beers Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zickler Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miller & Chevalier Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 108 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Frank and Nancy Parsons Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 237 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,150,406 to it, the largest being THE SPRING FOUNDATION INC ($12,406,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year. GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 237 organizations giving $69,150,406 in grants to GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- THE SPRING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,406,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 237funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing